Thursday morning, Michigan State received a commitment from point guard Lourawls Nairn Jr., the player with absolutely the best name on Rivals.com’s top 100 list and also a game that fits the Spartans as well as any playmaker could.

Lourawls Nairn Jr. will be Michigan State's point guard of the future. (247Sports Photo)

A 5-11, 180-pound senior at Sunrise Christian Academy in Wichita, Kan., Nairn is ranked No. 61 among prospects in the class of 2014. He competed each of the last two summers in Nike’s EYBL Finals at the Peach Jam—and the word “competed” should be emphasized.

In five games against high-level opposition at this year’s event, he averaged 8.4 assists, which ranked behind Arizona-bound Parker Jackson-Cartwright’s 9.7—but ahead of elite point guards such as Tyus Jones, Joel Berry and Tyler Ulis, who essentially opened the door for Nairn to end up at Michigan State

For much of the summer it seemed Ulis would decide between Michigan State, where his cousin Travis Walton enjoyed an exceptional career that ended in the 2009 NCAA championship game, and Iowa, which had recruited him longest. Ulis’ breakout performance this summer and Kentucky’s need for a point guard led the Wildcats to pursue him, and Ulis seized the opportunity. Realizing the direction the Ulis recruitment was heading, Michigan State made a late offer to Nairn.

Ulis is a magical passer and MSU certainly would have made great use of him, but Nairn is more out of the Walton/Mateen Cleaves/Keith Appling mold. He’s going to fit Tom Izzo’s program perfectly. He chose the Spartans over Indiana, Minnesota and Oklahoma.

Why someone with such a magnificent name as Lourawls would want to use a nickname is hard to fathom, but Nairn offers most often to “Tum Tum.”

“I took all my visits, but there was something different when I went there,” Nairn told Scout.com’s Evan Daniels. “The players were always together. The players put their arms around me and say ‘Tum, lets do this.’ And that meant a lot to me.

“Coach didn’t promise a starting spot or anything like that. He told me the situation and said they needed one. It just felt like home.”